keep the home fires burning...

Sweet Clarity

"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams, who looks inside, awakens " - Carl Jung

winter

Dark greys and dark greens
and frosty air
birr-whistles at our necks
making us lift our collars to the cold, cold
hand
of winter

that drenches

sending shivers
down our spines

Oh Lord
for
the
birth
of...........................

Gems

In my head, I’m alive. I feel like I'm really living. It’s just the wider world around me seems dead, passionless, greedy, now hopeless, lacking in spirit and weak willed.

But I have gathered some gems about me and these precious ones keep me afloat.

I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You

by Pablo Neruda

I do not love you except because I love you;
I go from loving to not loving you,
From waiting to not waiting for you
My heart moves from cold to fire.

I love you only because it's you the one I love;
I hate you deeply, and hating you
Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you
Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.

Maybe January light will consume
My heart with its cruel
Ray, stealing my key to true calm.
In this part of the story I am the one who
Dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you,
Because I love you, Love, in fire and blood.

irregularity

Seen as an irregularity on the production line
this mini scaffolding housing separate organs
is forced into atrophy
irregular atrophy

strandhill, co. sligo